the CITY ASSEMBLED: the Elements Of Urban Form Through History *
Language: English
Published by Bulfinch Press; Little, Brown,, Various Locations * * * * *, 1992
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Book: Fine/, $35.92 0821219308 the CITY ASSEMBLED: the Elements Of Urban Form Through History * KOSTOF, Spiro; CASTILLO, Greg Richard TOBIAS, Original Drawings By. Bulfinch Press; Little, Brown, Various Locations * * * * * 1992 UnStated 1sT Edition Tall Wide Thick & Heavy D/j + H/c Blue Spine With Title In 0ff~White Letters, Dust Jacket, Near Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Finger Pull Tear, Top Of Spine. Hard Cover Book: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 320 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper, In Fine/, Condition, Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Corners Are Square, Spine Is Tight. This Is An Original Edition, Not A Secondary Market Or More Modern RePrint. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = * * ~ Corrugated Mailing Box * * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The * * Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. * = No Odors, No Writing, No Other Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE.…
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- Title
- the CITY ASSEMBLED: the Elements Of Urban Form Through History *
- Author
- KOSTOF, Spiro; CASTILLO, Greg
- Publisher
- Bulfinch Press; Little, Brown,, Various Locations * * * * *
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0821219308
- ISBN 13
- 9780821219300
- Illustrator
- Richard TOBIAS, Original Drawings By. 1992 Book: Fine/,
In every instance, Professor Kostof follows a story that ranges widely in time and place up to the present to indicate that the discussion remains fresh and engages our own time in unexpected ways. In the past, all the elements of a city evolved in response to a variety of pressures. Today they are usually the result of planning decisions. In a final chapter, Kostof considers "urban process" - the effect on cities of natural disasters, war, and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with incremental growth and change. His book is thus an exercise in architectural and social history, a case study for the present, and a pointer for the future. Urban form is never innocent of social content: it is merely the matrix within which we organize daily life, and we have strong opinions about it. Modernism was a harsh intrusion in the development of almost every theme. The current recovery from the less tolerant aspects of that doctrine has made us look again at what it is that we treasure in the traditional city, and how we can recharge the old urban forms with present-day common sense.
The story is also told in over three hundred drawings, prints, paintings, and photographs that trace not only patterns but uses, from the colonnaded street of ancient Palmyra to the recent demonstrations in Prague's Wenceslas Square.
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